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The Path to Human Flourishing

Our uppermost potential for health and healing is not fixed. The integral level of health transcends and embraces all earlier approaches, offering expansive and profound well-being. Elliott introduces the principles and practices of an evolutionary, holistic, and developmental integral health.

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The Path to Human Flourishing

Our uppermost potential for health and healing is not fixed. The integral level of health transcends and embraces all earlier approaches, offering expansive and profound well-being. Elliott introduces the principles and practices of an evolutionary, holistic, and developmental integral health.

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Integral Health and Human Flourishing

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Week 8 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.

The integral approach to health appreciates the contributions of the four central aspects of the human experience – biology, consciousness, inter-personal relationships, and inter-connection with culture and the environment. Session 8 explores these four aspects and emphasizes the central role of inner development.

The Alchemy of Adversity

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Week 7 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.

How can we turn adverse circumstances into opportunities for practice? Session 7 brings life's unavoidable difficulties into perspective, so that adversity will become a powerful teacher on the path to larger life and health.

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Dr. Lee Lipsenthal discusses the new integral model of healing that is emerging, and how it represents the next step in health care, as it aims to incorporate all dimensions of healing, from physical to spiritual, and ecological to cosmological. He describes how this approach takes “mind-body medicine” to the next level, one that integrates spiritual dimensions fully into our understanding of how the body works in health and illness.

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The End of Suffering

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Week 3 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.

This class explores the way to progressively alleviate stress, and suffering while simultaneously promoting the qualities of human flourishing – optimal health, enduring happiness, and a stable and profound peace of mind, body, and spirit.

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Transforming Disturbing Emotions

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Week 4 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.

This class presents the seven approaches to work with afflictive emotions, in order to restore natural harmony and balance. We learn about the human capacity for self-regulation and explore current research in the field of neuroscience.

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The Noble Heart

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Week 5 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.

This class helps us develop an understanding of the concept of "otherness," the focus of a noble heart. We learn how to shift from self-centeredness to other-centeredness and expand our capacity for selfless intimacy, joy, and love with "loving kindness" meditation.

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Elliott S. Dacher is a pioneer in the emerging medicine of the future. His knowledge and practical approaches to the field of health and healing have evolved from his extensive experience as a practicing internist participating in over 50,000 medical visits and his ongoing independent research and study.

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Elliott S. Dacher is a pioneer in the emerging medicine of the future. His knowledge and practical approaches to the field of health and healing have evolved from his extensive experience as a practicing internist participating in over 50,000 medical visits and his ongoing independent research and study.

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Elliott S. Dacher is a pioneer in the emerging medicine of the future. His knowledge and practical approaches to the field of health and healing have evolved from his extensive experience as a practicing internist participating in over 50,000 medical visits and his ongoing independent research and study.

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A Transformative Model for Restoring Heart and Soul of Nursing and Health Care

IONS President Marilyn Schlitz hosts this discussion with Dr Jean Watson. This session shares some of the latest research and science of the heart and how it underpins Caring Science as an ethic, philosophy and theory as guide to transforming nursing and health care from the inside out.